May 20
issue — If you like seeing things get blown up, maybe
blow ‘em up yourself, there’s a hay field in north-central Idaho
that’s for you.

THIS IS WHERE
the “BoomerShoot” was just held, a three-day weekend where people pay
about $45 to practice shooting explosives-filled juice boxes at long
range. In 1998 Joe Huffman invited 10 people. This year, nearly 100
gathered, including techies from Microsoft, a government scientist and a
congressional candidate from Illinois. “I call [Huffman] an explosives
keeper, like a beekeeper, although it’s a little different,” says
Stephanie Sailor, libertarian.